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William Mckinley
beat democrat Jennings Bryan twice
boss hanna's man
assassinated by a socialist
dingley tarriff (highest in history)
gold standard -
Treaty of Paris
US gets philippines, Puerto Rico, guam
Cuba was independence US PROTESTED
EFFECTS
need for Panama canal, better US military, Philipino insurrection
US overseas Empire, 1898 US ANNEXED HAWAII -
Theodore Roosevelt republican (1901-09) Bull Moose Party
• Square deal proposal
• Corollary to Monroe doctrine
• Panama canal right acquired (1904)
• Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
• Won Nobel Peace Prize (1906)
• Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
• San Francisco Earthquake (1906)
• Panic of 1907 -
National Reclamation Act
construction of irrigation works
wanted people to settle in west converting arid federal land into agriculturally productive land. -
Big stick policy
• Roosevelt policy to restore order in Latin American countries
• Panama canal the treaty of Hay-Bunau gave US the right to build the canal
• Roosevelt help solve many disputes between south American countries and European to maintain peace and US interest from being monopolized
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Hepburn Act
prohibited railroads from obtainning commodities
control interstate commerce
create rates on railroads -
panic of 1907
$$$ trust had a greater power over US banking & $$$ suply than the goverment -
W.E.B. Dubois
• Advocate full social, pol, & eco equality for all blacks
• Co founded NAACP 1909 with white people
• 1st black to get a Harvard PhD
• Opposed Booker T conservative approach
• Niagara movement ask for black to be treat as men -
Woodrow Wilson: (1912-1920) republican
• Won election of 1912 against the progressive party member Theodore Roosevelt
• Lusitania sunk
• US enters war
• Treaty of Versailles and the league of nations
• 18 & 19 amendment -
Federal Reserve System
• Result from investigation of money trust/ panic of 1907
• Serve as the national central bank
• US government controls $$$ supply, interest rates
• Most banks joined by 1929 -
Dollar diplomacy
to protect US ecomomy interest including Venezuela intervention
guaranteed loans to pay money own to foreinght countries
designed to help Latin America
durind william taft presidency -
Underwood- Simmons tariff 1913
lowers tariffs -
Military intervention in Vera Cruz 1914
US controls city after mexican officials seized US sailors & refuse to apologize -
Clayton anti trust act 1914
outlawed many practices used to build monopolies
exempted unions from Sherman anti trust act -
Federal trade commision 1914
investigate corporations violations antitrust laws -
Military intervetion into Mexico 1916-19
led by Gen Pershing to chase Pancho Villa
troops were sent
to Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Virgin Islands -
Zimmerman note
germans promise to return lost lands to Mexico if join the war against US -
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Red scare & Palmer Raids (1919-20)
• Fear of communisms and immigrants
• Strikes happened often and many innocent were put in jail
• The hysteria got worse after world war 1
• American civil liberties was created
• Mitchell Palmer he needed to protect America from communist people
• http://www.slideshare.net/mrlocke/red-scare-palmer-raids -
steel strike 1919
massive violent strike
led by Union leader Samuel Gompers
broken by national guards
contributed to the red scare
a communist helps lead a strike -
League of Nations
US senate led by Henry Cabot refuse to join
Wilson took fight to join the league of nations
had a stroke and his wife ran things until end of his term -
Margaret Sanger 1921
found American Birth Control League
Family planning & Birth control -
Booker T. Washington
• Tuskegee institute vocational training schools
• Promote education, political and economic development for all blacks
• Atlanta compromise ask for whites to allow blacks a vocational skills & earn living (1905)
